In this guide, we’ll show you some bass guitar basics, helping you get started on your musical journey. The bass guitar is responsible for creating the undercurrent - or bassline - that ties a song together, giving it a rhythmic feel and a steady beat that helps both the guitar and drums propel the song forward. My only disagreement with your comment is that sometimes, even a low end cheap guitar can be compared to a more expensive guitar.Bass may not get all the glory of the guitar or have the flash, crash, and bang of the drums - but the instrument holds an important spot in any band, bridging the gap between rhythm and melody. I would pick my daughter's "cheapy" Stagg over my custom and the Supreme any day. I have also played a friend's 2004 Gibson Supreme and I was very disappointed in the quality and playability of it. It looks amazing (Master Grade soild flame maple body) but the playability and the tone are just not there. In contrast, I have a $3200 custom hand made guitar that I had made about 10 years ago and it has always been a disappointment. I got the guitar out last night and ran in through my little Fender Super Champ XD and wow, the tone was spectacular. The body and electronics are as good as many Fenders I have played. Needless to say she lost interest and stopped playing and the guitar has been in a closet, unused for a few years.Īlthough the quality of the fret work and neck finish leaves a bit to be desired, the overall feel, sound and playability of the guitar is great. I bought a Stagg guitar for my daughter many years ago for about $160. And, the "F" and "S" words do nothing to add to your integrity rather, they mask what your abilities and integrity might really be.Įxcellent write-up. Very few arrive 100% perfect.įinally, abuse does break guitars and guitar parts. Even so, I still find myself doing the occasional adjustment to some pretty expensive guitars. Gibson and Fender have to add the costs of doing those adjustments into the final cost of the instrument and then calculate the asking price from that total cost. Most of the adjustments and tweaks that I do on the low price point guitars have already been done to Gibsons and Fenders. In fact, to compare a $200 guitar to other than a $200 guitar is to compare apples to oranges. For students I do the adjustments and set-ups for free, for anyone else $25.Īlso, let's be honest, it's unfair to call a Stagg, or any low price point guitar, a piece of crap compared to a genuine Les Paul or a US made Fender. Now, almost all can be made into a playable instrument in half an hour or so. I've been teaching and playing since the early 70's and recall when the quality rate for any Chinese guitar was about 1 out of 24. In fact, the Chinese quality gets just a tad better with almost every container load that arrives. Here and there I need to level a couple of frets that weren't set right but I've also had to do that on many other models including some high-priced instruments. I've had to lower, raise or tilt pickups on almost every electric. That's too bad but if Gibson had a guitar that they sold for $200-300 they wouldn't be able to make pre-shipment adjustments either. You have to remember that for a price under $200-300 (in most instances) not much in the way of factory adjustment can be done. Once I make bridge and neck adjustments, lower the action and adjust the pickups, most models seem to sound reasonably well and some sound very good. I've found that they generally have no factory adjustments and that the Chinese generally leave the actions pretty high. I have a number of students who buy and bring in a variety of models of Stagg guitars.
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